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If you are a passionate dollhouse enthusiast, you will be always looking for new and creative ways to make your tiny house more intricate, beautiful and realistic. You can spend hours painstakingly applying the right wallpaper to a tiny room, or arrangement silverware on a table. The time will just fly by, as you are lost in your own miniature world!
When you are searching for the next fun and creative way to make your dollhouse look as realistic as possible, why not try adding more texture?
How Texture Enhances Design
Texture refers to the way things feel to the touch, such as a smooth wooden floor, a fuzzy rug or bumpy stucco. Home décor experts recommend adding a touch of texture to a full sized room when decorating, such as a fur rug or a knitted throw. A variety of textures gives the eye more to look at and makes the design more interesting.
Of course, the same applies to the design of a small room within a dollhouse. The added texture will add visual appeal and make the room appear more attractive.
Texture – Making the Tiny Seem More Real
Another important aspect of having the right textures in your dollhouse is that they will make it appear much more realistic. For example, if you have a plastic fireplace with painted on bricks, it will look shiny and feel smooth. While at first glance it will “do the job” as a fireplace for your dollhouse, it will never look convincingly real because it doesn’t have the right texture.
However, if you used a fireplace in your dollhouse that looked and felt like real bricks, all of a sudden your tiny room would start to look very different. You could get down close and squint your eyes and the fireplace would look almost exactly like a full sized one – which is the effect that you want to create.
Adding in More Textures to Your Dollhouse
So take a look around your dollhouse and figure out where you can add more texture. Perhaps you could add floors made from real wood, so that they would have an authentic looking wood-grain appearance and texture to them. Maybe you could change the curtains to real curtain fabric, so that they will have the right weight and thickness.
If you struggle to find dollhouse accessories that have the right texture that you are looking for, you can always create it yourself. There are many different tutorials online that show you how to paint dollhouse miniatures so that they have different textures such as stone or ceramic. All you need is a bit of patience, a few small sponges and toothbrushes and a lot of creativity.
You can also add texture to the walls and ceiling of your dollhouse. For example, if you want to add a little more visual interest than a plain white ceiling, you can add some salt or sand to your paint in order to give it more texture. Also, there are specific types of medium that you can add to acrylic paint which will allow it to have a matte or glossy finish.
Don’t Forget the Outside!
When it comes to adding texture, don’t forget about the outside of your dollhouse too! You can add in some beautiful effects with some of the products available out there, such as a “stucco grit pack” that you can add to paint in order to give it the appearance of thick and rough stucco. You can also add in real wood or stone in order to really make the outside of your dollhouse more appealing.
With the right textures, your dollhouse will not only have a more intricate and attractive design but it will also be ultimately more convincing and realistic. Have fun adding texture and experimenting with the fun design of your beautiful dollhouse!
Gem Wilson is a freelance writer and blogger who is fascinated with miniatures. She has a dollhouse project that she has been working on for months and she also loves to make dolls.
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